May 1997

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Features

Integrins and Health

Discovered only recently, these adhesive cell-surface molecules have quickly revealed themselves to be critical to proper functioning of the body and to life itself

By Alan F. Horwitz

The Coming Climate

Meteorological records and computer models permit insights into some of the broad weather patterns of a warmer world

By Jonathan Gregory, Neville Nicholls and Thomas R. Karl

New Chemical Tools to Create Plastics

Small molecular machines called metallocene catalysts have revolutionized the industrial synthesis of valuable plastics

By John A. Ewen

Galaxies in the Young Universe

By comparing distant primeval galaxies with older ones nearby, astronomers hope to determine how galaxies form and evolve

By F. Duccio Macchetto and Mark Dickinson

Seeking a Better Way to Die

By John Horgan

Departments

Divided We Fall: Cooperation among Lions

Managing Human Error in Aviation

Reviews and Commentaries--Portrait of a Pathogen

From the Editor

The Misunderstood Clone

Letters

Letters to the Editors, May 1997

Anti Gravity

Coffee Talk

50, 100 & 150 Years Ago

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, The Sun's Heat and The Tire

Wonders

HOH and Life Elsewhere

In Brief

In Brief, May1997

Profile

Electric Cars and Pterosaurs Are My Business

Mathematical Recreation

Big Game Hunting in Primeland

Amateur Scientist

When Hazy Skies are Rising

Science and the Citizen

Vanishing World

The Sinister Cosmos

As Time Goes By...

Scent Prospectors

By the Numbers

Female Illiteracy Worldwide

Working Knowledge

Antishoplifting Labels--Working Knowledge

Connections

Stones and Bones

Cyber View

World Wide Widgets

Technology and Business

Under the Wire

Strange Attractors

Power to the People

Taming Tremor

In Focus

The Start of Something Big?

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